Tom Hardy Lands ‘Splinter Cell’ Lead Role

Now here’s a video game adaptation that we can totally get behind. According to a new report, Tom Hardy has signed on to star in a big screen take on “Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell.”
Video game publisher and developer Ubisoft is already riding high thanks to the news that Michael Fassbender is slated to star in and co-produce an adaptation of “Assassin’s Creed,” and this news is arguably even more exciting. Variety broke the Hardy news, though little else is known about the project.

“Splinter Cell” isn’t currently set up at a studio, though “The International” scribe Eric Warren Singer is…